Listen to a studio performance of the composition My Favorite Things from the album of the same name by a boy rightly considered a child prodigy, who was featured on a New York Times magazine cover not a full month after the release of his debut album. Maybe Joey will grow up to be a great jazz pianist, but many child prodigies cannot sustain their careers into adulthood.
It is no wonder Joey Alexander sparked such interest of colleagues and the public almost over night it seems, since he shows astonishing maturity in his technique and improvisation. You can see it in how he moves as he plays, and how he talks. I am amazed by everything about his playing – his rhythm, the confidence and his understanding of music.” He caught public attention last year with a performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala Concert where he was invited by artistic director Wynton Marsalis who said the following about Alexander: “I don’t know anyone like him. 'a Russian pianist who was a child prodigy in his day' As an example: Id consider someone like Emily Bear to fit with that, but there are many other examples. He met Herbie Hancock at one his first performances when he was 8 and decided after that to “dedicate his childhood to jazz”. People were wanting me to define what a prodigy is: The google definition is: a person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities. Joey Alexander learned to play the piano by ear on a toy instrument when he was 6 by listening to his parents’ jazz records. Now 10 years old, Jos Andr is jazz piano prodigy who has performed at the Kennedy Center and the World Bank with another show booked in New York in. who used to perform with different ensembles at the Jazz Fest – Grenadier in 20 and Owens in 2009 and this year, when he performed with Kurt Elling. It was like a natural talent that he had. PIANO PRODIGY Group and individual piano lessons for developing gifted and talented children Adelaide, South Australia.
Guest musicians on the album were bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. Watch 12-year-old jazz prodigy Joey Alexander J/ 11:30 AM / CBS News When jazz great Wynton Marsalis first heard Joey Alexander play the piano, he was blown away. The label Motéma Music released My Favorite Things on which the young artist was joined by bassist Russell Hall, drummer Sammy Miller and trumpeter Alphonso Horne. The album by this exceptionally gifted boy brings jazz standards and one original composition Ma Blues inspired by the song Moanin’. My Favorite Things, the first album by young, 12-year old Indonesian pianist Joey Alexander was released at the beginning of May earning him two Grammy nominations, in the category Best Improvised Jazt Solo and Best Instrumental Jazz Album.
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